Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] all [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 2 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 3 | If Candy realised the game Adam was playing , she would go storming in with all guns blazing , never stopping to think of the possible consequences , all her protective instincts roused in defence of her best friend . |
| 4 | As a result of this activity , a three-dimensional model of a tin mine can take on the appearance of a twisted mass of petrified spaghetti with shafts and tunnels splaying out in all directions . |
| 5 | You 'll have to excuse it being a bit cold cos we 're walking around with all windows |
| 6 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 7 | He warned the Conservatives and Labour that ‘ from the ancient bastion of liberalism , the flames are fanning out in all directions , consuming your shabby campaigns , your out-of-date policies , your visions of the future ’ . |
| 8 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 9 | in the second half so we can expect to see Collimore racing on to all sorts of long balls now . |
| 10 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 11 | knows what is going on at all times within the department ; |
| 12 | J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world . |
| 13 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 14 | The focal point of the town centre is the church , with old buildings threaded by narrow alleyways hemming in from all sides . |
| 15 | White our colour , the colour of limbo : white sands , white rocks , a white light pouring down from all sides . |
| 16 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |
| 17 | Another sign of the past was carefully concealed from passing strangers , but Yakovlev 's interest was aroused by the frequent sight of windowless huts with smoke pouring out from all sides of their thatched roofs . |
| 18 | Within weeks , the directors in charge of the dealing room were instructing dealers to prevent clients from selling out at all costs . |
| 19 | Richard was like a gusher of newly tapped oil spraying about in all directions . |
| 20 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 21 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 22 | Slowing down at all corners and giving way to pedestrians . |
| 23 | There were some forty of them , moving in from all directions , in gangs of no more than three or four . |
| 24 | The economic seesaw has hit the ground with a bone-juddering thud yet again — jobs are flying off in all directions as redundancies explode , industries contract and small businesses collapse . |
| 25 | The books feature various babies getting up to all sorts of tricks in different situations . |
| 26 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 27 | But the first thing she had to do was suss out the lie of the land — there was no point in going charging in with all guns blazing . |
| 28 | When that happened , he could imagine the pines closing in on all sides , sealing the locomotive and the carriages in a green tomb ; invisible even from the air . |
| 29 | Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs . |
| 30 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |